Digital bullying

14 percent of Norwegian children and young Internet users between the ages of 8-18 admit to having sent malicious messages online. For those between 17 and 18, 26 percent admit to having done this.

22 percent of children between the ages 8 and 18 have recieved an e-mail with threatening content. Of these, 22 percent talked to an adult about it, while the matter was so serious that it was reported to the police in 3 percent of the cases.

Source: Safe use-survey 2008, The Norwegian Media Authority

False sender

The messages you receive on your mobile phone aren’t necessarily from the person you think they’re from. There are in fact online services that make it possible for anyone to send text messages from whatever sender number they choose to specify.

Sending joke messages from a false identity isn’t illegal in itself. It’s what the messages are used for that decides whether a criminal act has been committed. Something that might be considered as a joke by one person could be seen as a real threat by another.

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